The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.